Re: Unkillable process
Is it just me or does it all sound like we are getting involved in some mass
slaughter of children and parents
:)
Tomaas Ortega
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" <dingo@texoma.net>
To: "Debian-User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Unkillable process
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Michael Soulier wrote:
>
> MS> > netscape is known doing this, 'kill -9 <PID>' should get rid of
them,
> MS> > signal 9 is not maskable.
> MS>
> MS> But if the process is blocked on an uninterruptable system call,
it will
> MS> never return to receive the signal. This is a known Unix deadlock that
happens
> MS> rarely. Disk reads and writes are uninterruptable, I believe. Perhaps
this
> MS> person is experiencing I/O troubles.
>
> Well, if the nutscrape was hung on uninterruptable system call, the whole
> machine would be probably deadlocked, if the child doesn't want to die,
kill
> the parent :), it will take the child down with it.
>
> Dingo.
>
>
> ).|.(
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